(VOV) - On December 8, Vietnamese and Lao border provinces signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in preventing and combating cross-border drug crime at a meeting in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien.

The Central Highlands provinces of Dak Lak, Lam Dong, Dak Nong and Gia Lai have planned to replant additional 19,224 hectares of coffee trees to enhance the quality and productivity of the sector during this year’s rainy season.

Around four million coffee seedlings will be provided to farmers in the Central Highlands this year, raising the total number supplied there under a project to help farmers in the region replace old and stunted coffee trees to nearly 11 million.